Aw C'mon Mike, this photo from which this likeness was derived is in your face book labelled Mike Moreau.I CHALLENGE you to show that photo and it will be clear this caricature is a good likeness of that photo! Not my fault that you mislabel your photos in face book. Mike,SHOW the caricature I submitted when you sent me the pic of yourself as above. I am sure people will see it as a good likeness.

Post the whole Cartoon I did that got you so riled up & hornery to write this....

Dear Stan, instead of "Fairfax cartoonist goes soft on Hamas," how about "Fairfax cartoonist gets tough on abusive, murdering occupiers?" That might be a more accurate summary of the current situation in Gaza.

Lighten up Mike, Now that you have bought all this up.... Post my cartoon here, let others judge it for themselves. Anyway I know you are going through a bad patch, and it was not my aim to upset you, merely present a different point of view. I remain your good natured and tolerant mate Stan

he's a pretty crap cartoonist if that is supposed to be you. the idea of a caricature is that you know who it is, but it still makes the person look silly. I would never have figured out that the drawing was supposed to be you just by looking at the two images

You're right, Mike - that caricature looks absolutely nothing like you.

Looking a little rough man! hehe!

With a little work, you could pull off a respectible George Clooney. That should score some more ladies.

Hi Mike, I enjoy your cartoons and comments, thanks.

Sorry to hear about your personal situation - it stinks when you have the rug pulled out from under you with no warnings, eh. Been there, done that! It's been 2 years since my husband ran off with another woman (or 2 or 3...) and left me with 2 daughters, no house, no income (self employed with the dirty so and so) etc. and so on blah blah. I would just like to say to you that you will have bad days, but please remember things will get better in the long run. It's just a hard thing to have to go through, and is such a raw thing to have to experience. The main thing is jold onto the thought that IT WILL GET BETTER when you are having a bad day, the bad days get fewer as time goes on and the good days get better...

The one he drew in that family first cartoon was a much better likness. Actually, come to think of it, it looks like he just traced the face from the banner on your blog. That would explain why he didn't draw the bottom of your face and instead had you peering over your drawing.

Thanks Lynda, that's good advice you can be sure I'll take. And you're right, it does get better with each passing day, especially when you turn the contentious things over to lawyers and just focus on the children!

Curtis ... George Clooney?! I'm flattered man, thanks for that. I'm not sure how George would feel about that though.

And finally, regarding Stan Blanch's complaint, please let me clarify a few things:

Stan drew the caricature of me which you see above and sent it to me, then followed it up with a cartoon using the same caricature, depicting me cavorting with Hamas militants and such, in response to my Gaza cartoon. Now I can take a joke and don't mind the ribbing; people can draw cartoons of me doing whatever they want, and Stan has done a few, posting them on the internet with all sorts of quasi-slanderous comments. Whatever. But I thought that if he was going to draw me, then he should at least create a passable pic and not show me looking like the son of Jabba the Hut. On Friday I posted the two pictures for comparison, in a good natured riposte to his cartoon. I also sent my pic to Stan and thought that was the end of it. I turned off my computer, went home and didn't check my blog or emails until late on Sunday. During that time Stan created a revised Hamas cartoon with the new pic, which he wanted me to publish. But since I didn't immediately respond to his request (and since Stuff sometimes doesn't moderate blog comments over the weekend), he got increasingly worked up, to the point where he sent me a few nasty, personal emails and ultimately complained to Fairfax, suggesting I was deleting his comments and acting unethically by deliberately misleading people. None of that is true. I accept that Stan's original caricature was based on an incorrect photo, but since he pulled it off the net from a Facebook page which I have never had, then it's his responsibility to be accurate. My name is Mike Moreu, not Moreau, and I'm not an overweight basketball coach from the midwest United States. More than a cursory glance at the user profile would have clarified this. Since Stan has been so vindictive and objectionable, I'm not going to bow to his demands and print his new pic. If people want to see it, then they should Google his name and find his site. That's all I have to say about the subject.

Wait... he did that original caricature of you based on a picture from a Facebook profile of someone who isn't even you but has a similar name?

Wow... where is your professionalism Stanley?